This paper explores and contributes to scholarship on the escalating related concerns of environmental conservation and housing affordability. Situated within contemporary…
Samara Scheckler, Jennifer Molinsky
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December 3, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, service coordinators played a pivotal role in the support of older adult residents of publicly funded housing properties. Some independent…
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic, a powerful movement for racial justice, and the devastating impacts of climate change have combined to bring the nation’s longstanding…
Jennifer Molinsky, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Rodney Harrell, Shannon Guzman
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October 30, 2020
Around the world, a rapidly aging population has helped spur a recognition of the importance of creating livable and age-friendly neighborhoods and places where people of all…
Today, more than twelve years into conservatorship, the path forward for the reform of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), is in some…
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) announced in mid-July it would at last do a review of the secondary mortgage market. For many decades, housing finance policy…
The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) system consists of eleven regional banks that are cooperatives owned by their members, which their congressional charters currently specify…
This third installment about demystifying single-family mortgage credit risk transfer (CRT) by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae…
As the economic impact of the pandemic continues, one of the biggest issues to emerge in housing finance is the availability of mortgages. Media reporting and policy…
Since 1993, NeighborWorks America has convened over 15,000 lower-income resident leaders at the Community Leadership Institute (CLI). Resident attendees come from across…